Friday, June 27, 2014

All games the rest of the way will air on Univision, Univision Deportes, and ESPN Deportes. I'll just get that out of the way from the start. ABC and ESPN ahve thre remainder of the English Broadcasts. Here's your Round of 16 announcing assignments.

The World Cup continues and MLB is ready to roll in this weekends live sports on ESPN Radio. Here's your schedule breakdown. All times are EDT.

Saturday, June 28

11:30 AM- World Cup: Brazil vs. Chile

3:30 PM- World Cup: Colombia vs. Uruguay

6 PM- MLB: Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees

Sunday, June 29

11:30 AM- World Cup: Netherlands vs. Mexico

3:30 PM- World Cup: Costa Rica vs. Greece

7 PM- MLB: Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees

Monday, June 30

11:30 AM- World Cup: France vs. Nigeria

3:30 PM- World Cup: Germany vs. Algeria

Tuesday, July 1

11:30 AM- World Cup: Argentina vs. Switzerland

3:30 PM- World Cup: USA vs. Belgium

The next update will be on July 3rd and will cover July 4- July 7, which features the World Cup quarterfinals and 4 MLB games. I would go later than the 7th, but the World Cup semifinals are July 8 & 9. Enjoy.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

A few months ago the rumor was that Tim Brando would be joining SEC Network. Brando is based out of Louisiana after all, and the ruor had it that the Tim Brando Shwo would end up being placed on SEC Network, much like Paul Finebaum is. It seems a different fate was in store though for Brando and company. ﻿Fox Sports announced today that Tim Brando has been hired to broadcast college football and basketball on Fox Sport and Fox Sports 1. With the announcement that he will appear on main FOX, it means Brando has been made the #2 play-by-play man behind Gus Johnson. It means we will see Brando focusing on Big 12 and Pac-12 games in the fall and Big 12, Pac-12, and Big East games in the winter/spring. No other announcements regarding FOX's broadcast teams this upcoming season were announced, but FOX did say brando will broadcast a Game the first weekend for them. Here's the full announcement from FOX.

FOX SPORTS ADDS NOTED BROADCASTER TIM BRANDO

TO IMPRESSIVE COLLEGE SPORTS ROSTER

Veteran Broadcaster to Call College Football and College Basketball

on FOX and FOX Sports 1

Brando Makes FOX Sports Debut First Week of College Football Season

New York –Tim Brando, a veteran broadcaster with decades of experience calling over 25 sports, is the latest addition to FOX Sports’ impressive and rapidly growing roster of college sports personalities and contributors. FOX Sports Executive Producer John Entz announced today that Brando joins FOX Sports’ coverage of college football and college basketball on FOX and FOX Sports 1 beginning this season. Brando’s broadcast partner, as well as the full FOX Sports college football announce teams, will be released at a later date.

“Tim is one of the most recognized voices in college sports,” Entz said. “Adding someone with his experience and credibility to our college football and basketball coverage is a fantastic addition for FOX Sports.”

Brando (@TimBrando) comes to FOX Sports with an impressive resume that includes his daily show,The Tim Brando Show, on Sirius XM Radio. Winner of the prestigious Lindsey Nelson Award in 2014, a national honor given annually to a college football broadcaster, Brando is one of the most authoritative voices in the world of big-time college athletics. He has called more than 25 different sports during his prolific career, including college football and basketball, and he has been one of the most recognizable voices of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament since 1996. Brando also served as host of CBS Sports’College Football Today and At The Half studio shows, did play-by-play for CBS Sports’ NFL coverage for several years and has done play-by-play for Raycom’s coverage of ACC basketball and hosted Raycom’s Emmy Award-winning showFootball Saturdays.

Brando joins Bruce Feldman andStewart Mandel as other recent additions to FOX Sports’ expanding college sports coverage. Feldman was announced in April as a FOX Sports senior college football reporter & columnist, and Mandel earlier this month as a senior columnist focusing on college football and basketball.

FOX Sports’ 2014 college football schedule includes exciting action from the Big 12, Conference USA and Pac-12, as well as the Big Ten and Pac-12 conference championship games. Overall this season, over 100 college football games air across FOX Sports’ national and local broadcast and cable platforms, encompassing the FOX broadcast network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Networks (FSN), FOX College Sports, FOX Deportes and FOX Sports GO. Coverage this season kicks off with four straight days of action, beginning Thursday, August 28 (10:00 PM ET), as Rutgers takes the field for the first time as a member of the Big Ten, facing Washington State at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on FOX Sports 1.
As for why Tim Brando is joining Fox and not SEC Network, this is his response from today on Facebook. "As many of you know, Brett McMurphy of ESPN broke a story a few weeks ago about a potential agreement between the SEC Network and yours truly. While I value their interest and wish them well, Football was never part of their short term vision for my future. I want to thank them and the SEC for their interest and wish them nothing but the best."

Thursday, June 19, 2014

This takes us through the rest of the first
ruond of the World Cup. Sorry for not getting it out sooner. Here's your ESPN
Radio schedule through June 26. It should be noted they have added 2 MLB games
this weekend after having removed it originally.

Please note that all these games will be available on
ESPNRadio.com and on ESPN Radio's TuneIn frequencies. All this weeks World Cup games as well as
the first game listed on Monday-Thursday and Saturday night's baseball
game will be on TuneIn
Frequency 1. Sunday Night Baseball and the second games listed on
Monday-Thursday will be on TuneIn
Frequency 2. The regular ESPN Radio
programming of The Herd, SVP & Rusillo, and The Dan
Le Betard Show will be available on TuneIn Frequency
3 next
Monday-Thursday.

The 2014 World Cup gets continues this Thursday. ESPN, ESPN2,
ABC, and ESPN Radio will provide English language broadcasts for every game.
ESPN Deportes will carry select games in Portugese. Univision, Univision
Deportes, UniMas, and Galavision will provide Spanish coverage of every game
throughout the states. I will list which games are on ESPN Deportes here, but I
will only provide the English announcing assignments. All games during this
first week are scheduled to be simulcast in Spanish on both Univision and
Univision Deportes. Here is your week 2 English broadcast assignments.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

ESPN Radio was scheduled to take a break from MLB games until June 28. However they have added back in the Sunday Night Broadcast. Outside of Sunday Night though, they will be focusing on the World Cup. Wednesday's game will air on ESPN2 due to the College World Series. Here's your schedule breakdown.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

If there is one thing that is certain in this world, it's that there will always be change. People just haven't expected much change from CBS, both in regular TV and in terms of sports, after they've dominated the market for nearly the last 10 years. This year will be quite different. ﻿After making massive schedule changes for most of their shows this fall, CBS will be making masive broadcast assignment changes.

Two broadcast teams- Jim Nantz and Phil Simms as well as Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts, remain the same. Nantz and Simms will be joined though by Tracy Wolfson for everyone of their broadcasts this season. Eagle and Fouts meanwhile have been promoted to the #2 broadcast team. The rest of the changes occur mostly because Marv Albert has retired from football broadcasts, though that isn't the case in one instance. Greg Gumbel goes from the #2 broadcast team to the #3 broadcast team where he will be joined by Trent Green. Trent Green replaces Dan Dierdorf and joins the network from Westwood One.

For the rest of the changes, it is as follows.

* Kevin Harlan replaces Marv Albert on the #4 broadcast team and will be paired with Rich Gannon.

*Spero Dedes moves up to the #5 broadcast team and will be paired with Solomon Wilcotts.

*Andrew Catalon moves up from CBS Sports Networks #1 college football broadcast team to the #6 broadcast booth. He will be in a 3-man booth with Steve Beuerlein and Steve Tasker.

*Jenny Dell and Evan Washburn will be used as sideline reporters throughout the season.

Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts Named THE NFL ON CBS’s No. 2 Announce Team

The CBS Television Network will begin its 55th year of broadcasting the NFL with Jim Nantz, Phil Simms and Tracy Wolfson leading THE NFL ON CBS into the Network’s 2014 NFL season. Nantz, Simms and Wolfson will call the full slate of Thursday Night Football games on CBS and the NFL Network, along with selected Sunday games on CBS. Sean McManus, Chairman, CBS Sports,and Executive Producer, THE NFL ON CBS, announced today several changes to the 2014 announcer line-up along with the complete list of broadcast pairings.

Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts have been named THE NFL ON CBS’s No. 2 announce team and will call the network’s top game on Sundays when Nantz and Simms do not call a game.

Wolfson, who served as the Network’s lead college football reporter for the past 10 years, will join the lead announce team of Nantz and Simms as THE NFL ON CBS lead reporter. In addition to Wolfson, THE NFL ON CBS will utilize additional sideline reporters during the season including Jenny Dell and Evan Washburn.

THE NFL ON CBS announce team is solidified even more this year as the deepest in sports television as Greg Gumbel will team with newcomer Trent Green. THE NFL ON CBS announce team also will feature several new pairings including Kevin Harlan with Rich Gannon, Spero Dedes with Solomon Wilcots, and Andrew Catalon forming a three-man booth with Steve Tasker and Steve Beuerlein.

James Brown once again will anchor the CBS Television Network’s pre-game studio show, THE NFL TODAY, along with analysts Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, and newcomers Tony Gonzalez and Bart Scott,from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. Jason La Canfora willcontinue to serve as the “NFL Insider.”

Following are the Network’s NFL announcer pairings for the 2014 season (play-by-play/analyst):

Jim Nantz/Phil Simms//Tracy Wolfson

Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts

Greg Gumbel/Trent Green

Kevin Harlan/Rich Gannon

Spero Dedes/Solomon Wilcots

Andrew Catalon/Steve Beuerlein/Steve Tasker

Game coverage also will include play-by-play announcers Brian Anderson and Tom McCarthy, as well as analysts Adam Archuleta and Chris Simms.

McManus also serves as Executive Producer for THE NFL ON CBS.

Lance Barrow is the coordinating producer and lead game producer for THE NFL ON CBS, and Michael Arnold is the lead game director. Drew Kaliski is producer for THE NFL TODAY, while Bob Matina directs. David Berson is President, CBS Sports. Harold Bryant is Executive Producer & Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.

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